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A little more about my adventure Friday – I rode the electric motorcycle to a nearby town on the west side of the airport, 6-8 miles away. In the town as I was looking for the park I rode up and down some pretty streets.
The streets were of course full of the little shops so very typical of commercial street life here.
And the main business square had its share of – for this town - large buildings, this one complete with video board.
And on the way I was on on a huge multilane highway that went under part of the airport runway access ramps.—This large red truck is the most common freight carrier I think -- at least I have seen a lot of trucks that look like this and are either red or blue. and speaking of blue, -- check out that sky - it was a rare beautiful day.
I passed and pulled into this place where huge statutes were being “carved”, made, or what ever - This was on the side of the rode in a large lot. There was no sales office or whatever, just a little dormitory type building and these guys working. It looked interesting -- These large resolute looking warriors of the past are 10-12 feet high. They are made I think from the same material that bricks are made of and low heat treated so they are not as hard (often wrong, never …)--
At any rate they are not solid – or at least this one was not.
And this one was being carved with an electric grinder and a hammer like tool. The small piece of material I picked up looked like marble.
Now this looked like marble, probably was not but this particular Buddha was being rinsed in something to make him glossy.
I also saw this temple on a hill top, stopped and went in. There were many saffron wearing monks about, as well as various vendors of incense, fire crackers and red paper things. This was the largest Buddha there and in the center you can see a monk tapping a drum and reading and chanting from a book.
Of course in one of the associated buildings were the “guards” or famous generals or something.—probably the later.
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